Abstract
Art Peterson’s (1996) The Writer’s Workout Book: 113 Stretches Toward Better Prose offers a formidable collection of writing ideas through several themed chapters. “Know the Difference Between Funny and Unfunny Words” (p. 197) is a list writing exercise that calls on students to think of word pairs and their images and decide which are funny and not funny.
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Leigh, S.R. (2014). Joyful Nonsense. In: Wounded Writers Ask. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-713-1_2
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